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EricHiggin on 28 March 2019
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Immersiveunreality said:
SvennoJ said:

If we're still stuck in out own little solar system in 1 billion years then we don't deserve to colonize the universe. Interstellar flight should be possible within another thousand years.

However if the speed of light can't be broken in any possible way, an interstellar society will simply be impossible. The universe might already have small islands of disconnected colonies spread out in time. When messages take years to travel between stars with any supplies or traffic taking a multiple of that and even more due to relativistic effects, what kind of interstellar society can you build.

Suppose any messages between America and Europe would take 10 years to arrive, while any ships take a hundred years to arrive. The two would simply grow apart as if the other doesn't really exist.

Does not need to be broken we only need to get near it.

Closest star is 4.24 lightyears away from earth and 4.37 from our own star called the sun so it would at the fastest rate mean we need to travel for 4.24 years but that speed is highly unlikely when we are capable to come close to the speed of light.

Breaking the speed of light could mean we would have to be able to create portals or fissure's into time and space (like the theories of wormholes) to be able moving mass at an almost unthinkable rate atm.

Quantum entanglement or something like it will probably be the answer. You take a pair of entangled particles, put one of them on one side of the planet, and put the other on the opposite side of the planet. You monitor both using identical methods. You change the state of one particle on one side of the planet, and the other on the opposite side of the planet changes instantaneously as well. Based on what is known as of now, there is no distance at which should cause a delay. Meaning you could have communication systems based on quantum entanglement and you could instantly communicate across space, galaxy to galaxy, with no delay whatsoever. The speed of light would be a joke in comparison.